CONTAINMENT STRATEGY
If you live in the Pacific Northwest and shop at one of the 11 Wild
Oats grocery stores in the region, you may be buying your food in
corntainers.  No, that's not a typo:  This month, Wild Oats Markets
became the first food store chain in the country to use
environmentally friendly packaging made of corn.  Most traditional
food packaging is made from petroleum products; the corntainer is
fossil-fuel-free (except for shipping and production processes, of
course) and can be thrown in the compost right along with the
leftovers of your portabello-and-sundried-tomato sandwich.
Alternatively, consumers can return the packaging to Wild Oats
stores, where they are subsequently recycled into organic soil by an
Oregon company.  The company says people love the corntainer, and it
plans to begin using them at 77 stores nationwide by the fall.

straight to the source:  CNN.com, Reuters, 13 Jun 2003
http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1252>

only in Grist:  Foaming at the mouth -- sage advice on Styrofoam in Ask
Umbra
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